Pre-Conference Workshops
Thursday 24 August 2023 (Further workshop information and specific times will be updated below shortly.)
Integrating Research-to-Policy Translation Skills Into Health Professional Workforce Training: An Innovative Online Resource for Planning Policy Advocacy Campaigns
Workshop Overview: The translation of eating disorders research into evidence-informed advocacy and policies requires the eating disorders professional workforce to gain knowledge and skills in strategies for building policy advocacy campaigns in partnership with communities and policymakers. Few health professional schools, however, provide even basic training on how to engage in the policymaking process through advocacy campaigns. The full engagement of the eating disorders professional workforce in policy advocacy will require the development of new health professional curricular materials, particularly those designed for online delivery to reach professionals in field settings that can address matters of health equity. The Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders: A Public Health Incubator (STRIPED, www.hsph.harvard.edu/striped) addressed this critical training need by creating the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook, a free, open-access online resource that offers step-by-step training in how to work with communities and policymakers to build advocacy campaigns for change (tinyurl.com/STRIPEDPlaybook). Featuring My Power People’s Power Prism®, a free, open-access rubric developed by community advocates to guide public health professionals, policymakers, and community advocates through the six components of successful campaigns, the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook offers worksheets, model legislation, social media toolkit examples, and more resources for eating disorders prevention policy. This workshop will provide participants training in the techniques and strategies drawing on the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook to build effective policy advocacy campaigns to advance eating disorders prevention.
Learning Objectives:
Presenter: S. Bryn Austin, ScD, is an award-winning researcher, teacher, and mentor. She is Professor at Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital and is director of the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders: A Public Health Incubator. She is a social epidemiologist and behavioral scientist with a research focus on public health approaches to eating disorders prevention with an emphasis on policy translation research and advocacy. Her research also focuses on determinants of sexual orientation and gender identity health inequities. She is Past President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Eating Disorders Coalition.
Workshop Overview: The translation of eating disorders research into evidence-informed advocacy and policies requires the eating disorders professional workforce to gain knowledge and skills in strategies for building policy advocacy campaigns in partnership with communities and policymakers. Few health professional schools, however, provide even basic training on how to engage in the policymaking process through advocacy campaigns. The full engagement of the eating disorders professional workforce in policy advocacy will require the development of new health professional curricular materials, particularly those designed for online delivery to reach professionals in field settings that can address matters of health equity. The Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders: A Public Health Incubator (STRIPED, www.hsph.harvard.edu/striped) addressed this critical training need by creating the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook, a free, open-access online resource that offers step-by-step training in how to work with communities and policymakers to build advocacy campaigns for change (tinyurl.com/STRIPEDPlaybook). Featuring My Power People’s Power Prism®, a free, open-access rubric developed by community advocates to guide public health professionals, policymakers, and community advocates through the six components of successful campaigns, the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook offers worksheets, model legislation, social media toolkit examples, and more resources for eating disorders prevention policy. This workshop will provide participants training in the techniques and strategies drawing on the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook to build effective policy advocacy campaigns to advance eating disorders prevention.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain rationale and approaches for research-to-policy translation to promote eating disorders prevention.
- Identify six key components of the Power Prism® and the contribution of each component in designing an eating disorders prevention advocacy campaign.
- Apply practical techniques from the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook designed to advance evidence-informed policy advocacy efforts to prevent eating disorders.
Presenter: S. Bryn Austin, ScD, is an award-winning researcher, teacher, and mentor. She is Professor at Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital and is director of the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders: A Public Health Incubator. She is a social epidemiologist and behavioral scientist with a research focus on public health approaches to eating disorders prevention with an emphasis on policy translation research and advocacy. Her research also focuses on determinants of sexual orientation and gender identity health inequities. She is Past President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Eating Disorders Coalition.
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